Book Reviews

White Torture Prison Interviews Condemn Solitary Confinement

White Torture Prison Interviews Condemn Solitary Confinement

Kamin Mohammadi (no relation) has read Narges Mohammadi's new book, even as the author sits in Evin Prison,...

13 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Kamin Mohammadi
Arab Women’s War Stories, Oral Histories from Lebanon

Arab Women’s War Stories, Oral Histories from Lebanon

Evelyne Accad reviews a new book on Lebanese women and war, a collection of oral stories told in...

13 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Evelyne Accad
Reading Iraq: Our Top 10 List of Iraqi Fiction

Reading Iraq: Our Top 10 List of Iraqi Fiction

A list of must-read Iraqi fiction, from Ahmed Saadawi's "Frankenstein in Baghdad" to Sinan Antoon's "The Book of...

5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Rana Asfour
 The Watermelon Boys on Iraq, War, Colonization and Familial Love

 The Watermelon Boys on Iraq, War, Colonization and Familial Love

Rachel Campbell finds that Ruqaya Izzidien's debut novel set in Iraq provides counter-narratives to the country's early 20th-century...

5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Rachel Campbell
Editor’s Picks: Magical Realism in Iranian Lit

Editor’s Picks: Magical Realism in Iranian Lit

Rana Asfour has selected four contemporary novels of Iranian literature for this special issue on Iran in TMR...

30 JANUARY 2023 • By Rana Asfour
Sabyl Ghoussoub Heads for Beirut in Search of Himself

Sabyl Ghoussoub Heads for Beirut in Search of Himself

Adil Bouhelal reviews the new novel from the author of "Le Nez Juif" with its exploration of Lebanon...

23 JANUARY 2023 • By Adil Bouhelal
Mohamed Makhzangi Despairs at Man’s Cruelty to Animals

Mohamed Makhzangi Despairs at Man’s Cruelty to Animals

Saliha Haddad reviews the new translation of a major collection of short stories by the Egyptian author.

26 DECEMBER 2022 • By Saliha Haddad
Fida Jiryis on Palestine in Stranger in My Own Land

Fida Jiryis on Palestine in Stranger in My Own Land

Diana Buttu, a Palestinian lawyer in Haifa, reviews the family memoir that evokes nearly a century of Palestinian...

28 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Diana Buttu
Football in the Middle East: State, Society, and the Beautiful Game

Football in the Middle East: State, Society, and the Beautiful Game

Justin Olivier Salhani reviews a new anthology on football and the Middle East just as the World Cup...

21 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Abir Kopty
Changing Colors — Reflections on The Last White Man

Changing Colors — Reflections on The Last White Man

Jordan Elgrably reads a book about white fear and racism and finds that colorism isn't our only problem.

15 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Jordan Elgrably
The Life of Malika in Vivre à ta lumière

The Life of Malika in Vivre à ta lumière

Jean-Philippe Cazier reviews the latest novel in French from Moroccan writer Abdellah Taïa, written in memory of his...

15 OCTOBER 2022 • By Randa Aboubakr
Zoulikha, Forgotten Freedom Fighter of the Algerian War

Zoulikha, Forgotten Freedom Fighter of the Algerian War

Fouad Mami meditates on a nearly forgotten heroine of Algeria's war for independence, who was memorialzied in an...

15 OCTOBER 2022 • By Fouad Mami
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